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Lab: Mouse Genetics (One Trait)

Question 53 • IS - O - 3490 - The Living Earth B CP Online

Next, you perform a cross with a mouse with black fur and a mouse with white fur. Which result(s) for the offspring would confirm that the mouse with black fur was heterozygous?

Answer
A
4 mice with black fur
B
8 mice with black fur, 1 mouse with white fur
C
5 mice with black fur, 6 mice with white fur
D
6 mice with black fur, 2 mice with white fur

Explanation

White fur is recessive, so the white-furred mouse must pass on a recessive allele. If the black-furred parent were homozygous dominant, all offspring would have black fur. Any white offspring shows that the black-furred parent also passed on a recessive allele, confirming it was heterozygous; choices B, C, and D each include white offspring.

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